I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR8 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. With the IO Platform reaching end of life on 9 April 2019, this is expected to be the final IO Platform release.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 2.0.12
• Spring Batch 4.0.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 2.0.5
• Spring Data Kay-SR14
• Spring Framework 5.0.13
• Spring HATEOAS 0.25.1
• Spring Integration 5.0.13
• Spring Retry 1.2.4
• Spring Security JWT 1.0.10
• Spring Security OAuth 2.2.4
• Spring Security 5.0.12
• Spring Session Apple-SR9
• Spring Web Services 3.0.7
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I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR17 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 1.7.13
• Spring Boot 1.5.20
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.8
• Spring Data Ingalls SR20
• Spring Framework 4.3.23
• Spring Integration 4.3.20
• Spring Retry 1.2.4
• Spring Security 4.2.12
• Spring Security JWT 1.0.10
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.17
• Spring Web Services 2.4.5

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This is a maintenance release that includes a number of important dependency updates and bug fixes.

Since 1.5 will be end of life in august, all users should now be considering an upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.9 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This is a maintenance release that includes almost 40 dependency updates and selected bug fixes.

This is the last release in 2.0 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1 if you haven't already done so.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.20 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.20 is a maintenance release that includes over 30 dependency updates and selected bug fixes. These upgrades include Spring Security OAuth 2.0.17 which addresses a recently announced CVE.

If you haven’t already upgraded to Spring Boot 2, please consider doing so as support for 1.x will end on August 1st 2019.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.5 (changelog), 5.0.12 (changelog), and 4.2.12 (changelog). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips in which I look at the just-landed-on-master WebMvc.fn programming model in Spring MVC. WebMvc.fn is the functional DSL for Spring MVC that, I'll bet, you didn't know you wanted! This is awesome!

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City for the Kafka Summit where I'll be joining the excellent Tim Berglund, head of developer experience at Confluent, and James Watters, SVP at Pivotal, to talk about why Pivotal and Confluent are better together. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg and then it's off to to Mauritius for the DevConf. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

LTR: Confluent co-founder Jay Kreps, Tim Berglund, me and Pivotal SVP James Watters

And without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework 5.1.6, 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 available now
• Spring Tools 4.2.0 released
• Last week on A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast) I talked to Josh Mckenty about data sovereignty, microservices, Cloud Foundry, Python, the cloud, Pivotal, and more
• If you get one blog to read, read this one on the Reactor Debugging Experience. It's amazing!
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.8 released
• Want to know what makes Pivotal Cloud Foundry the best place to run Spring Boot applications?
• Focus on Integration Tests Instead of Mock-Based Tests
• A gentle reminder that you should …

Asir Selvasingh | Principal PM Architect | Microsoft – Java on Azure

Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available.

It is simple to build highly scalable event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Azure that is resilient and reliable service for any situation; this includes emergencies, thanks to its geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features.

Spring Cloud Stream provides a binder abstraction for popular message broker implementations. It provides a flexible programming model…